Three Kingdoms 12: Wagers and Vows (12)

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Three Kingdoms 12: Wagers and Vows (12) [Chen, Wei Dong, Liang, Xiao Long] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Three Kingdoms 12: Wagers and Vows (12) Review: A book of interesting episodes, and a nice wedding plot! - The Legends From China series comic and text version of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, one of the four great classics of Chinese literature, is a masterpiece of (relatively) simple storytelling, with great visuals. The only confusing point at times is the similarity in appearance of the many, many burly and bearded ancient warriors we are following, mainly because there are so many of them and most of them are quite invincible. But after a while the maze of characters starts to become clearer, and it's easy to become immersed in this amazing tale. Each book of about 170 pages is broken up into three or four individual tales, or adventures, mostly following our three heroes - Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei - as they go about their sworn mission, but also breaking away from time to time to tell someone else's tale (usually someone that's doomed to failure or death). Each section begins with an overview of what's to come (i.e. forecasting and spoilers), a map of the vicinity of China that is covered, as well as the odd box tale or illustration of a hero or two. Curiously, the text follows a western convention of family name last, inverting names like Liu Bei as "Bei Liu" (Liu is the family name), seemingly pretending that English convention is to do the same with all Chinese names, like Zedong Mao (Mao is the family name), or Kai Shek Chiang (Chiang is the family name, etc). Oh well... Now with this, the twelfth volume, we get the aftermath of Red Cliff, when both the winner and the loser of that grand battle realise that they've both been played by the real victor, Liu Bei, who may be technically allied with Sun Quan but is still very much his own man, winning territory and growing stronger under the strategies of Zhuge Liang. And while there is very little to be seen of Cao Cao in this book, still it opens with him in a showdown with Guan Yu, then gets into his depression as the man who lost an army, then some episodes with his sons - who are really only seen here for the first time, but who probably become more important as the story goes on. Among the victors, more stratagems between the Liu and Sun camps, and evil cackling Doctor Evil-type laughter. Zhang Fei once again provides doofus-like comic relief (not sure I like this very much), there are brief skirmishes with minor warlords in the never-ending war, as Zhuge Liang tricks Zhou Yu one more time; comic relief as Zhou Yu has a spastic attack, a Guan Yu episode with an ageing warrior, and more nutty feudal insanity. Finally, Liu Bei marches bravely into a sure death trap, with only the ingenious plan of Zhuge Liang to save him - and it does! We also get a glimpse of Sun Quan's crazy mom, the Lady Wu. Great grandstanding - can't wait to read the next one!!